Carnegie Mellon University

In the video below, Carnegie Mellon professor and ex-imagineer Jesse Schell lays out a vision of the future in which our lives become, essentially, one big RPG.

Project Halo, is a project funded by Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures. The project was initially led by Oliver Roup and Noah Friedland but is currently led by Mark Greaves, a former DARPA Program Manager. Project Halo is an attempt to apply Artificial Intelligence techniques to the problem of producing a "digital Aristotle" that might serve as a mentor, providing comprehensive access to the world's knowledge.

The aim of OLnet is to tackle gathering evidence and methods about how we can research and understand ways to learn in a more open world, particularly linked to Open Educational Resources (OER) but also looking at other influences.

The Institute for Software Research International, Executive and Professional Education, offers training courses in the domain of Enterprise Architecture (EA).

Our main long-term research goal is developing efficient algorithms and methods for designing, analyzing, and controlling complex real-world systems. To achieve this goal, our research spans the entire spectrum from theoretical foundations to real-world applications.

Convex optimization has become a main workhorse for many machine learning algorithms during the past ten years. When minimizing a convex loss function for, e.g., training a Support Vector Machine, we can rest assured to efficiently find an optimal solution, even for large problems. In recent years, another fundamental problem structure, which has similar beneficial properties, has emerged as very useful in a variety of machine learning applications: Submodularity is an intuitive diminishing returns property, stating that adding an element to a smaller set helps more than adding it to a larger set. Similarly to convexity, submodularity allows one to efficiently find provably (near-)optimal solutions.

The AI Repository was established by Mark Kantrowitz in 1993 to collect free software and materials of general interest to AI researchers, educators, students, and practitioners.